A Geography of Power: Transnacional Mining in Peru and Argentina

Authors

  • Philippe Dautrey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/CLIVATGE2018.6.3

Keywords:

Peru, Argentina, transnational mining, territory, territoriality

Abstract

Peru and Argentina have distinctive geographic and socio-economic characteristics but both contribute to the expansion of neoextractivism in Latin America (that term refers to a business model based on the overexploitation of non-renewable natural resources and heavily dependent on export markets). This geography of neoextractivism, however, needs to be considered in relation to the geography of power. Presently, a number of neoliberal changes made in the legislation in the 1990s in order to facilitate the extraction of metals, and the alliance of multilateral organizations with governments and giant foreign corporations, have empowered the transnational mining industry. These changes have allowed it to impose territory re-functionalization through a system of accumulation by dispossession and to create multinational trade corridors. The industry also controls territoriality and assumes the role of a hegemonic actor able to keep protest against social and environmental degradation in check. Confronted with such a situation, both South American nations are currently witnessing a reprimarization of their economies and thus reproducing past models.

 

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Published

2018-04-28

How to Cite

Dautrey, P. (2018). A Geography of Power: Transnacional Mining in Peru and Argentina. Clivatge. Journal of Studies on Social Conflict and Change, (6). https://doi.org/10.1344/CLIVATGE2018.6.3

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No. 6: Miscelánea

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